Private Properties: Julio Iglesias Buys a Home North of Miami for $15.2 Million

April 5, 2012 6:48 p.m. ET

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Spanish singer Julio Iglesias has paid $15.2 million for a 5,504-square-foot house next door to a 4-acre lot he owns in Indian Creek Village, an exclusive island community on the Intracoastal Waterway just north of Miami Beach, Fla.
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The home of the late news anchor Andy Rooney has listed for $749,500. The 2,474-square-foot home is in Rowayton, Conn., a small waterfront community on the Long Island Sound that's about 45 miles from Manhattan.
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Best known for his weekly broadcast on the CBS program '60 Minutes,' Mr. Rooney died last November at 92. He and his wife bought the four-bedroom home in the early 1950s and raised their four children there.
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In more recent years, after his wife died, Mr. Rooney spent the majority of his time in his Manhattan apartment on the Upper West Side.
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But he did visit the Rowayton home, which has a fireplace in the kitchen and a woodworking shop in the basement.There's also a basement office where Mr. Rooney frequently worked. It features a U-shaped wooden desk reminiscent of the one seen on his weekly '60 Minutes' segment. Bill Tims of Prudential Connecticut Realty has the listing.
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The 4.6-acre Bel-Air estate of Art Linkletter, the late talk-show host best known for a segment called 'Kids Say the Darndest Things,' has sold for close to its $10.3 million asking price. Mr. Linkletter's estate listed the house about two weeks ago.
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Mr. Linkletter lived in the 5,000-square-foot mid-century-modern house until 2010, when he died at age 97. He first moved into the five-bedroom house about 40 years ago.
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